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The OrthodoxWiki editors have taken St. [[John of Damascus]] as their heavenly [[patron saint|patron]] and intercessor as they seek to further the worship and knowledge of the All-Holy [[Trinity]] and the faith of the [[Orthodox Church]] by means of these pages.

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Today's feasts

Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria, and those with them at Rome: Claudius the Tribune, his wife Hilaria, their sons Jason and Maurus, the priest Diodorus, and the deacon Marianus;
Martyr Pancharius at Nicomedia (302);
Saints Quintus, Quintilla, Quartilla, Mark and Companions, martyrs venerated in Sorrento near Naples in Italy;
Saints Apollonius and Leontius (Leontinus), by tradition early Bishops of Braga in Portugal (4th century);
Saint Auxilius, a companion of St Patrick, became Bishop of Killossey (near Naas, County Kildare) in Ireland (c. 460);
Saint John the Syrian of Pinna, a Syrian monk who settled in Pinna near Spoleto in Italy and became abbot of a large monastic colony there for 44 years (6th century);
Saint Leontius of Saintes, Bishop of Saintes (640);
Saint Adrian, disciple of St Landoald, murdered while begging alms for his monastery near Maastricht in the Netherlands (c. 668);
Saints Landoald and Amantius, a priest and deacon who helped enlighten what is now Belgium and north-eastern France, founded the church at Wintershoven (c. 668);
Saint Lactan, born near Cork in Ireland, St Comgall entrusted him to found a monastery at Achadh-Ur, now Freshford, in Kilkenny (672);
Saint Alcmund (Alchmund of Derby, or of Lilleshall), martyred in Shropshire (c. 800)
Saint Gemus, a monk, probably at Moyenmoutier in Alsace, whose relics were enshrined at Hürbach;
Righteous Mary (Maria Shvarnovna), wife of Vsevelod III (1206);
Saint Bassa, nun, of the Pskov-Caves Monastery (1473);
Venerable Innocent of Komel the Wonderworker, in Vologda (1521), disciple of St. Nilus of Sora;
New Martyr Demetrius, at Constantinople (1564);
Saint Sophia of Slutsk and Minsk, descendant of the Sovereigns of the Kyivan-Rus' (1612);
New Martyr Nicholas Karamanos of Smyrna (1657);
Saint John Blinov, Confessor (1932);
New Martyr Matrona Alexeeva (1938);
Saint Symeon (Popovic), Archimandrite of Dajbabe Monastery, Montenegro (1941);
Other Commemorations:
Smolensk "Umileniye" ("Tender Feeling", "Sweet-Kissing") Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos;
Icon of the Mother of God of Lubyatov (15th century).

Monk-martyrs Conon, and his son Conon, of Iconium (270-275);
Martyrs Cyriacus and 12 companions, who suffered under Diocletian in Augsburg (c. 304);
Martyr Euphrosynus, in boiling water;
Monk-martyr Maximus, by stoning;
The uncovering of the Precious Cross and the Precious Nails by Empress St. Helena (326);
Venerable Arcadius, monk of Cyprus (361), and his disciples Julian and Euboulos;
Saint Arkadios, Archbishop of Cyprus;
Venerable Hesychius the Wonderworker;
The holy 42 Martyrs of Amorium (in Phrygia), including: Passion-bearers Constantine, Aetius, Theophilus, Theodore, Melissenus, Callistus, Basoes, and others, in Samarra (845);
Saint Marcian of Tortona (120);
Saint Patrick of Avernia (c. 307);
Saint Basil of Bologna, Bishop of Bologna (335);
Saint Fridolin of Säckingen, abbot, Enlightener of the Upper Rhine (5th-6th centuries);
Saints Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba, female members of the Mercian royal family in 7th century England (c. 680);
Saint Baldred of Tyninghame (Balther), a priest in Lindisfarne who became a hermit at Tyningham on the Scottish border (756);
Saint Chrodegang of Metz, Bishop of Metz in the east of France, he took part in several Councils (766);
Saint Bilfrid (Billfrith), a hermit at Lindisfarne and an expert goldsmith, who bound in gold the Lindisfarne Gospels, written and illuminated by Bishop Edfrith (8th century);
Saint Cathróe of Metz (Cadroe, Cadroel) (976);
Venerable Job (Joshua in schema) of Anzersk Island, Solovki (1720);
Other Commemorations:
Translation to Vladimir (1230) of the relics of Martyr Abraham of the Bulgars on the Volga (1229)
Repose of Helen Kontzevitch, Church writer (1989)
Icons:
"Chenstokhovskaya" (Poland) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (Black Madonna of Częstochowa);
"Blessed Heaven" (Moscow) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos;
The Shestokhovsk ("Hearth"), or Sheltomezhsk, Icon of the Mother of God (18th century).

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The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America, founded in 2010, consists of all the active Orthodox bishops of North and Central America, representing multiple jurisdictions. It is the successor to SCOBA, and it is not, properly speaking, a synod. The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America is one of several such bodies around the world which operate in the so-called "diaspora."